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同姓不同性
烏克蘭大選亮點
烏克蘭3月31日舉行總統大選，共有44名候選人，包括現任總統波洛申科（Petro Poroshenko）、一名喜劇演員、前總理尤莉雅‧泰莫森科（Yulia Tymoshenko），以及和她同姓的男性候選人尤里‧泰莫森科（Yuriy Tymoshenko）。
●Two of the candidates in next months Ukrainian presidential election have the same name - Tymoshenko. And the same initials.
烏克蘭總統候選人中，有兩人姓氏相同（泰莫森科），就連姓名縮寫也一樣。 ●Two-and-a-half million Ukrainian hryvna （$92,000）is a lot of money. 250萬元烏克蘭格里夫（相當於9萬2000美元）並非小數字。 ●With that amount of money you could buy a decent apartment here in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.這筆錢可在烏克蘭首都基輔買棟舒適公寓。 ●If youre willing to travel cross country, there are places where you could pretty much own a village.若你願意遊遍全境，有些地方或許買下一整村。 ●Two-and-a-half million hryvna also gets you a spot on the ballot paper for Ukraines presidential election. 250萬格里夫也能讓你在總統選票中取得一席之地。 ●If you come out as one of the top two finalists, you get your money back. If not, well, theres your hryvnas gone.若能進入決選前兩名，可拿回保證金，其餘候選人的經費則納入國庫。
●Tymoshenko. “That woman with the tightly curled blond plait,” you may be thinking to yourself. “I remember her. She used to be prime minister.”
提到泰莫森科，你可能會想「是那位有著整齊銀白色髮辮的女性，我記得她，她曾任總理」。
●But this Tymoshenko is a man called Yuriy. And if you live outside Ukraine you wont have heard of him yet.
但這位泰莫森科是名叫尤里的男性；若你不住烏克蘭，可能從未聽聞。
●The widespread suspicion is that Yuriy is whats known as a clone candidate, planted maliciously to steal votes from confused people who really want to vote for the former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko.
外界普遍懷疑尤里是克隆候選人，在選票上遭惡意安排在前總理旁，用以混淆真正想投給前總統的選民。
●Of course, Yuriy is ready for this line of attack. He tells me crossly that hes had the name since birth and that its always been his ambition to run for president.
當然，尤里已準備好應對此攻擊，略顯不悅地澄清他從出生就叫這個名字，並強調他參選總統的野心。